Podcasting Workshop: Call for Applicants

Are you a graduate student engaged in academic or professional work that you wish you could communicate to a broader audience? Interested in building your resume while learning how to tell compelling stories about meaningful topics? Curious about what you can do with a podcast?

If YES: the UW Libraries invites you to apply for Storytelling Fellows! This is an innovative, hands-on program designed to highlight the interests and accomplishments of UW graduate students, using digital-storytelling skills and technologies. This totally free, three-week online program will take approximately 10 accepted fellows through the start-to-finish process of envisioning and creating a podcast suitable for an online portfolio, professional presentation, or academic project.

Folks who have participated in past Storytelling Fellows programs have created digital stories for the following reasons:

• To make digital streaming content for websites
• To communicate their work either to professional or public audiences
• To learn a creative, emergent form they’ll use in their teaching
• To learn a skill they can highlight on the job market and employ in their careers
• To tell stories that have never been told and never will be unless they do it
• To have pure fun

Storytelling Fellows Course Details:

• The course will run from May 1, 2019 – May 26, 2019.
• There will be three live Sunday sessions hosted via webconference from 7:00pm-8:30pm on May 5th, May 12th, and May 19th. These sessions are mandatory.
• Finishing a 2-5 minute podcast is mandatory.

Take a look at the syllabus for more information.

No previous experience with media-making is necessary.

Really, the only requirement is a desire to be creative, to finish a project of your own design,  and to interact with other graduate students across disciplines.

To apply, please fill out this application by April 26th, 2019.